Re: [PATCH 6/6] workqueue: reimplement WQ_HIGHPRI using a separateworker_pool

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jul 12 2012 - 13:05:25 EST


Hello, Fengguang.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:06:48PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> [ 0.207977] WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/mm/kernel/workqueue.c:1217 worker_enter_idle+0x2b8/0x32b()
> [ 0.207977] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.207977] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.5.0-rc6-08414-g9645fff #15
> [ 0.207977] Call Trace:
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81087189>] ? worker_enter_idle+0x2b8/0x32b
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff810559d9>] warn_slowpath_common+0xae/0xdb
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81055a2e>] warn_slowpath_null+0x28/0x31
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81087189>] worker_enter_idle+0x2b8/0x32b
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81087222>] start_worker+0x26/0x42
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81c8b261>] init_workqueues+0x2d2/0x59a
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81c8af8f>] ? usermodehelper_init+0x8a/0x8a
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81000284>] do_one_initcall+0xce/0x272
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81c6f650>] kernel_init+0x12e/0x3c1
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff814b9b74>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff814b80b0>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff81c6f522>] ? start_kernel+0x737/0x737
> [ 0.207977] [<ffffffff814b9b70>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

Yeah, I forgot to flip the WARN_ON_ONCE() condition so that it checks
nr_running before looking at pool->nr_running. The warning is
spurious. Will post fix soon.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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